"Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be."

“The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'”

“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.”

Source : "News is bad for you - and giving up reading it will make you happier" by Rolf Dobelli, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

“John was an extraordinary man. Our relationship has shaped much of my life. I have always loved him and never stopped loving him. That’s why I want to tell the real story of the real John – the infuriating, lovable, sometimes cruel, funny, talented and needy man who made such an impact on the world. John believed in the truth and he would want nothing less.”

“I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.”

“It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of the mental disorders are initially things that are adaptive. Like even OCD, it's good to sort of have structure and have certain rituals but when it gets to be extreme then it becomes problematic.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.”

“This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.”

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt